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...Balenciaga's heyday, the stylish women he dressed--from Doris Duke to Mona von Bismarck--often said he gave them noble posture. Most women today don't want to look quite so regal and stiff, but they do want to feel au courant, and that modern poise is perhaps Balenciaga's most enduring legacy...
...Drawing on her diverse background?and a foundation art course in Britain?Magyar works with more than 90 small local producers and craftspeople who design a range of household items made from indigenous materials. The results are innovative and stylish. Bark cloth?"a wonderful material that is peeled from the trunk of a fig tree and traditionally used as clothing"?is coaxed into purses, cushion covers, jewelry bags, even Christmas stockings. Ugandan village women's basket-weaving skills are applied to banana-leaf and raffia place mats, palm-leaf cutlery trays and millet-stem and raffia lampshades and coasters...
...Germany's willingness to create a new national image and present it to the world while the country is host of the World Cup. Public-relations campaigns alone, however, cannot explain the flag mania that has gripped the country. That Germans seem to have discovered their flag and its stylish possibilities does not give cause for concern to our immediate neighbors, who were invaded during the course of a more toxic burst of nationalism. The current popularity of the national colors seems rather to be a celebration of a more relaxed feeling about our German past, identity and the displaying...
...designs that are both useful and attractive to Western sensibilities. Drawing on her diverse background - and a foundation art course in Britain - Magyar works with more than 90 small local producers and craftspeople who design a range of household items made from indigenous materials. The results are innovative and stylish. Bark cloth - "a wonderful material that is peeled from the trunk of a fig tree and traditionally used as clothing" - is coaxed into purses, cushion covers, jewelry bags, even Christmas stockings. Ugandan village women's basket-weaving skills are applied to banana-leaf and raffia place mats, palm-leaf cutlery...
...chastity and avoid the attentions of men. "I love Allah and I also love to dress up," explains emcee Do'aa Amer, a popular personality on an Arab satellite channel, who took up the veil herself after a pilgrimage to Mecca six years ago. "The veiled woman can be stylish and hip." Adds Amina Shelbaya, whose Lips agency supplied most of the models for the show: "To be veiled does not mean to get fat and not care about your looks...